Captive Nations Week

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

Max Sawicky wrote:
> 
> The global market abhors the elevation of national
> sovereignty over international capital, especially
> in cases where expressions of nationhood threaten
> to destabilize existing commercial relationships.
> 

Can't see why. There is no reason to think that ever smaller national
units will be less suceptible to domination by capital. Quite the
opposite.


> Hence the progressive case for supporting "captive
> nations."  A provisional list would include
> Palestine, Kurdistan, Timor, Tibet, Taiwan,
> Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Southern Sudan,
> and Kosova.  Maybe Manchuria and Sinkiang (sp?).
> 

How about the protestant majority that would itself become a captive
nation within this hypothetical Northen Irish nation? 

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